guide word

1. 1.

   a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page

   Synonymsguidewordcatchword

   Broaderword

Questions about guide word

What does guide word mean?

guide word means "a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page".

What is another word for guide word?

Close synonyms include guideword, catchword. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is guide word a common word?

guide word is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.